On Tuesday, at 12:30 GMT, the US Retail Sales and Core Retail Sales data will be published. The data is set to reveal whether the US consumer had continued to make purchases in the market.
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XAU/USD short-term forecast
At mid-day, the price had recovered and appeared to have found resistance in the 1,810.00/1,817.40 zone. Meanwhile, the zone was being approached by the 50-hour simple moving average. A move above this resistance zone, is expected to encounter resistance in the upper trend line of the smaller scale channel down pattern near 1,825.00, before reaching the 100-hour simple moving average at 1,830.00.
In the case of a decline, the price would look for support in the 1,800.00 mark, which was spotted to be acting as support already at mid-day on Monday. Below the round price level, note the lower trend line of the larger scale channel down pattern.
XAU/USD daily charts review
On the daily candle chart, note the historical low level zones above 1,750.00, near 1,720.00 and the coronavirus low level at 1,675.00.Daily Candle Chart
Traders are long
Since Friday, the sentiment on the Swiss Foreign Exchange was 63% bullish. Namely, 63% of open position volume was in long positions.
Meanwhile, in the 1000-pip range around the metal's price, pending trade orders were 50% to buy and sell the precious metal.